Indian Proverbs (394 Proverbs)
- A viper without fangs is like a piece of rope.
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- If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
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- There are as many characters as there are individuals.
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- All that is not given is lost.
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- In my homeland I possess one hundred horses, yet if I go, I go on foot.
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- Those who hunt deer sometimes raise tigers.
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- An old patient is better than a new doctor.
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- It is easier to cover our feet with sandals than to cover the earth with carpets.
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- Under the mountains is silver and gold, But under the night sky, hunger and cold.
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- Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
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- It's a brave bird that makes its nest in the cat's ear.
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- Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa.
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- As day breaks, the glowworms say As day breaks, the glowworms say "We've lit up the world!"
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- Most adults are attentive to what someone is doing, but children see beyond that.
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- When a crow is killed by a storm, the fortuneteller says, "He died by my curse."
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- Austerity is an ornament, humility is honorable.
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- Never strike your wife, even with a flower.
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- When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
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- Clouds that thunder seldom rain.
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- Nothing is comprehensible except by virtue of its edges.
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- Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision
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- Do not ask advice of the ignorant.
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- O daughter, I'm telling you
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- You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information.
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- Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.
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- One man's beard is burning, and another warms his hands by it.
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- A bandicoot is lovely to his parents; a mule is pretty to its mate.
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- Drops join to make a stream; ears combine to make a crop.
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- Pearls are worthless in the desert.
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- A book is like a garden in the pocket.
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- Eat fire and your mouth burn; live on credit and your pride will burn.
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- Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.
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- A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector - these seven are always annoying to others.
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- Even a cat is a lion in her own lair.
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- Take a close look then at today.
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- A good bark year makes a good wheat year.
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- Even if fed milk, a snake will still emit poison.
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- The answerer is inferior to the asker.
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- A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment.
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- Fate and free-will both play an equal role in destinies.
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- The baby has not been born yet, and yet you assert that his nose is like his grandfather's.
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- A house without children is a graveyard.
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- I have lanced many boils, but none pained like my own.
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- The dog's tail stays crooked even if he is buried for twelve years.
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- A pearl is worthless as long as it is still in its shell.
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- If they don't exchange a few words, father and son will never know one another.
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- The nose didn't smell the rotting head.
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- Be careful for deep water and dogs that do not bark.
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- A rap on the ringed finger does not hurt.
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- A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.
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- Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.
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- A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch -- both cannot be saved.
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- A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.
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- As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life.
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- A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
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- A coconut shell full of water is a sea to an ant.
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- As people go their own way, destiny goes with them.
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- A meal without flesh is like feeding on grass.
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- A cat in a cage becomes a lion.
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- Deceive me about the price but not about the goods.
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- As day breaks, the glowworms say "We've lit up the world!"
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- A house without a woman is the devil's own lodging.
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- A buffalo does not feel the weight of his own horns.
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- Can the monkey know the taste of ginger?
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- An elephant never tires of carrying his own trunk.
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- A man without money is like a bow without arrows.
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- A book is a good friend when it lays bare the errors of the past.
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- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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- An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
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- A man without a woman is only half a man.
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- A blind man sat behind a pile of stones and thought that nobody could see him.
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- By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass.
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- All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.
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- A man laughs at others and weeps for himself.
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- A beggar himself, can he afford to have one asking for alms at his door?
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- By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up the whole elephant.
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- All the water in the sea doesn't even reach the knees of the man who fears not death.
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- A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.
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- A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone.
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- Brains are not to be found in the beard.
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